Volkmar FR, Greenough WT. Rearing complexity affects branching of dendrites in the visual cortex of the rat.
Science 1972;
176:1445-7. [PMID:
5033647 DOI:
10.1126/science.176.4042.1445]
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Abstract
Higher-order dendritic branching is considerably greater in Golgistained neurons from the occipital cortex of rats reared in groups in a complex environment than in similar neurons of littermates reared individually in laboratory cages have intermediate amounts of branching, while lower-order branching did not appear to be affected by any rearing environment.
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